Ex-Valve employees are making their own AR headset

[TopWargamer]

http://www.cnet.com.au/former-valve-devs-kickstart-new-arvr-glasses-339345669.htm

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system

 

 

Earlier this year, a round of lay-offs hit Valve. Included in the fallout were hardware developer Jeri Ellsworth and software developer Rick Johnson, and apparently, this is a match made in gaming heaven.

The pair, you see, had been developing a top-secret project that Valve allowed them to take with them — an augmented-reality system that displays 3D images right before your eyes that they are calling castAR.

castAR consists of a pair of active shutter glasses mounted with a pair of micro projectors and a retro-reflective surface, made out of the same kind of material you see used in high-visibility safety clothing and road markings, and embedded with infrared ID markers that allow it to track your head position and orientation. Each projector casts a stereoscopic 3D image on to the surface, which then appears to the wearer as an object in the real world — and thanks to the infrared markers, it stays in place as you move around.

I really wish the best for them and I hope their AR goggles get funded on Kickstarter. It'll be neat to see how these will be used.

[AMICLG]

Jeri Ellsworth has been working on this forever, no new news in the maker world but not all of are members are part of that community any way good post. 

[JLCitadel]

Eh.. More excited for oculus rift.

[stevv]

Looks promising.  1 Year is a long wait.  

[Mooshi]

Decades later, the VR devices still scream nerd. Can't someone make a nice looking one that doesn't like like this childhood toy painted in black?

 

[AMICLG]

Decades later, the VR devices still scream nerd. Can't someone make a nice looking one that doesn't like like this childhood toy painted in black?

 

They look like sunglasses not google glasses.

[Lukiose]

Probably will still go with Oculus because they already have the seal of approval and compatibility with various companies & games like Valve or Star Citizen

[DarkEcho]

Please go ahead and correct me on this, but I thought the Oculus came under 'VR' because it doesn't include something actually real in the game or whatever, so how can you compare the two??

 

I thought AR was like having a game character sit on your sofa at home, not a full 3D rendered environment?

[mgsstar]

Links are dead but found other links: http://www.cnet.com.au/former-valve-devs-kickstart-new-arvr-glasses-339345669.htm

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10/15/ex-valve-engineer-launches-kickstarter-for-castar-augmented-reality-glasses/

 

But would need to see people review these before considering in getting one.

[TopWargamer]

Links are dead but found other links: http://www.cnet.com.au/former-valve-devs-kickstart-new-arvr-glasses-339345669.htm

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10/15/ex-valve-engineer-launches-kickstarter-for-castar-augmented-reality-glasses/

 

But would need to see people review these before considering in getting one.

Updated. Thanks!

[atomicmonkey101]

I dunno, OR still looks better in my opinion.

[AMICLG]

Please go ahead and correct me on this, but I thought the Oculus came under 'VR' because it doesn't include something actually real in the game or whatever, so how can you compare the two??

 

I thought AR was like having a game character sit on your sofa at home, not a full 3D rendered environment?

Well it's VR as well and you put a sheet of retroreflective material onto the surface you want to be augmented ie. a coffee table displaying news or chess or a video game.

 

EDIT: Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc2NQVQK69A

[Mooshi]

They look like sunglasses not google glasses.

 

The OP was edited after that picture was posted.

 

Even after the edit showing these glasses, they still look awful design wise.